Thoughts on frontend development, design systems, accessibility, and building for the web.
Part 3 of 3 — Closing the design system loop with VS Code. How the right extensions bring your token architecture into the editing experience, catch drift before it ships, and make the right choice the easy choice.
6 min readPart 2 of 3 — How to connect your Storybook design system to Figma without manual syncing. A practical setup for design tokens that live in code and propagate to Figma automatically.
7 min readPart 1 of 3 — How I used Storybook as the foundation for a production design system. Not a showcase tool, but an actual development environment where components are built, documented, and tested in isolation.
6 min readI built my own portfolio on Hugo with a custom CLI, PostCSS pipeline, and Netlify deploy workflow. Here's what the process surfaced about static site architecture decisions — and the tradeoffs I'd make differently.
6 min readA framework-agnostic developer isn't a framework-averse developer. Here's the decision framework I use to choose between vanilla JS and a framework on any given project — and why the default answer has changed.
5 min readTechnical wins disappear in a vacuum. Here's the stakeholder communication framework I use to make performance improvements visible, credible, and decision-ready — without turning every update into a lecture.
4 min readHow reframing a conference website redesign as a conversion problem — not a visual refresh — drove a 27% increase in early-bird registrations and a 35% drop in speaker info support emails.
4 min readAfter achieving WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across three enterprise dashboards, I changed how I think about accessibility — not as a remediation task but as a structural design constraint that produces better products for everyone.
4 min readA practical walkthrough of the audit-first, vanilla-JS approach that brought three enterprise dashboards from 6-second loads down to 1.7 seconds — inside a corporate IT environment with strict security review.
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